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External Back up Drive Suggestions Please
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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1639349" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Hello - you might want to take a look @ this recent <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/other-hardware-peripherals/321274-samsung-wd-portable-drive.html" target="_blank">THREAD</a> - plenty of good discussion, plus I posted a couple of graphs related to external hard drive (EHD) failure rates both related to time and to brand.</p><p></p><p>Any EHD can fail at any time or last for years - their 'mortality' is about 20% @ 4 years and likely 50% @ 6 years (again see the graphs mentioned above). Seagate drives seem to be more prone to failure vs. Western Digital (WD) - I have 6 EHDs and a LaCie SSD. Many here recommend using WD drives - these are inexpensive even for 1 & 2 TB models. </p><p></p><p>I would strongly suggest that you do not rely on a single EHD for your backup needs - I have an iMac & MBPro both running Time Machine x2, CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner x2), Carbonite for my wife's personal files (and the LaCie for mine on the laptop) - so a BIG believer in redundancy (kind of like a RAID 1 setup for each backup program on each computer) - and BTW, I've had 3-4 EHDs fail on me in the past and just suddenly w/ some 'clicks & clacks' - Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1639349, member: 234411"] Hello - you might want to take a look @ this recent [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/other-hardware-peripherals/321274-samsung-wd-portable-drive.html"]THREAD[/URL] - plenty of good discussion, plus I posted a couple of graphs related to external hard drive (EHD) failure rates both related to time and to brand. Any EHD can fail at any time or last for years - their 'mortality' is about 20% @ 4 years and likely 50% @ 6 years (again see the graphs mentioned above). Seagate drives seem to be more prone to failure vs. Western Digital (WD) - I have 6 EHDs and a LaCie SSD. Many here recommend using WD drives - these are inexpensive even for 1 & 2 TB models. I would strongly suggest that you do not rely on a single EHD for your backup needs - I have an iMac & MBPro both running Time Machine x2, CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner x2), Carbonite for my wife's personal files (and the LaCie for mine on the laptop) - so a BIG believer in redundancy (kind of like a RAID 1 setup for each backup program on each computer) - and BTW, I've had 3-4 EHDs fail on me in the past and just suddenly w/ some 'clicks & clacks' - Dave :) [/QUOTE]
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